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...FAS is placing requests for new and replacement staff under greater scrutiny than ever before. Requests for replacement and new staff positions, as well as reclassification requests, must be justified from both mission and business perspectives. In light of the continuing economic challenge, this is the most prudent path toward conserving our precious resources and preserving employment for our existing staff base to support our mission and pursue our academic priorities...
...FAS has more than 6,000 landline phones with a wide variety of telephone service features. Most of these are digital phone lines, also known as ISDN, which cost roughly twice as much per month as analog lines. Many faculty and staff do not need the additional features – such as call forwarding and conferencing capabilities – available in a digital phone, and due to advances in analog phone technology, many other digital phone features are now available for analog phone lines. An ongoing audit of our usage and needs has so far yielded substantial annual...
...FAS spent about $13 million last year on travel, meals (including catering), and entertainment. Based on department plans for fiscal year 2010, we will spend far less next year. As announced in January, the former meeting subsidy at the Faculty Club has been eliminated. Non-sponsored and non-research related travel should be used in only the most important circumstances and only in cases where technology solutions, such as videoconferencing, are inadequate or unavailable...
...near term, FAS will cease nearly all discretionary facility upgrades and enhancements, such as touch-up painting, painting simply to change the color of a space, and carpet replacements in cases where the existing carpet is still serviceable...
Historically at Harvard, when school expertise in a particular area either does not exist or is not available within reasonable time constraints, outside consultants have been used to fill the gap. Last year, the FAS spent nearly $10 million on external consultants. Instead FAS will utilize the expertise available within the University to accomplish such tasks. This will require a commitment to the “One Harvard” perspective, and will necessitate greater communication and collaboration across schools. Only in rare cases when required expertise simply does not exist within the University will outside consultants be used...